Applied Archaeological Visualization: Technical advances and research insights from the effort to visualize Neanderthal/AMH interactions at deep time depth.

Summary

Geospatial and temporal mapping technologies continue to rapidly evolve, making possible archaeological visualizations capable of revealing patterns in the past from new and potentially dramatic perspectives.

The TemporalMapping.org project, now in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s PalaeoChron.org, will share techniques and research results from data visualization efforts including a global 30-arc second resolution model of sea level change from 475,000 BP to Present and a high resolution animation of Neanderthal/Anatomically Modern Human interactions based on research published in August, 2014.

Details of current modelling processes and programming methods will be discuss along with a brief introduction to using similar techniques and freely available tools to craft bespoke visualizations, and the potential for archaeological applications of emergent technologies originally designed for Business Intelligence.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage